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From: Richard S. Hall on 28 Sep 2006 07:53

"Pascal Bourguignon" <pjb(a)informatimago.com> wrote in message
news:87fyecwfes.fsf(a)thalassa.informatimago.com...
> Petter Gustad <newsmailcomp6(a)gustad.com> writes:
>
>> George Neuner <gneuner2/@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>> Aztec had a good quality rommable code K&R C compiler for the 6502.
>>> IIRC, it was based on a prior 6800 version.
>>
>> The 1979 August issue of Byte Magzine had an article on a Lisp
>> implementation for the 6800.
>
> Key word being "a". But indeed, if I had a lisp on my 6809 instead of
> Pascal, I would probably have had more fun :-)
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
>
> "Our users will know fear and cower before our software! Ship it!
> Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!"

Nothing like the "good 'ol days" of using Mark Williams C compiler to write
rommable Z80 code on Zenith Z100, then split into pieces to be put on 2716
(EPROM)s. The compiler was buggy, you had to check the assembly code: "int
x; x = 1;" worked fine, but "int x = 1;" would not complain in the compiler
but leave x uninitialized! There were other bugs too. Of course you could
connect the end result to a 300 baud modem and use ITS/MacLisp!.

Sorry if I sent to your email Pascal - hit wrong button meant to send to
group!


From: GP lisper on 28 Sep 2006 08:22
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:55:38 -0400, <gneuner2/@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> OTOH, I have eerily similar memories of writing my first PC programs
> using Microsoft C on a 640KB machine with dual 360KB floppy drives.
> Except in the PC case, the compiler took 2 (compiler) disk swaps per
> source file and another disk swap to link and I couldn't load any of
> it into a ram disk.

You were getting killed by the floppies, 5in floppies were slow. I
ran this sort of stuff in a 1.2 meg ramdisk, mapped into the BIOS as a
disk drive...and it was 'Microsoft'.

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